Census-designated place · Seminole County, Florida

Midway (CDP), Florida

Midway is a census-designated place in Seminole County, Florida, part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area. It has 1,407 residents. Midway (CDP), Florida has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,289 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #286 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on depression (low), effective property tax rate (low) and math scores (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and rent-burdened households (high).

53Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,289 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #286 of 780 in FL
Population: 1,407 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,910.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 1245475

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety68#5,062/15,637
Economy36#10,059/15,631
Housing14#12,841/14,977
Health75#3,970/15,609
Healthcare48#8,184/15,650
Environment73#4,205/15,453
Education45#8,560/15,649
Infrastructure35#10,112/15,650
Community58#6,643/15,651
Leisure & amenities78#3,482/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Midway (CDP), Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Seminole County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Depression · low13.9%
99/100Florida 18.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Effective property tax rate · low0.27%
98/100Florida 0.78%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Math scores · high3.48
96/100Florida 3.28United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Reading scores · high3.40
95/100Florida 3.17United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Distance to an airport · low9 mi
94/100Florida 21 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauSeminole County value
Comfortable days · high34.5%
94/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSeminole County value

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.1 /10k
1/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesSeminole County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low8.0%
5/100Florida 34.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Rent-burdened households · high41.2%
5/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Rent as share of income · high24.7%
7/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071High uncertainty
Hot days · high103 days
9/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSeminole County value
Preventable hospital stays · high3,559 /100k
18/100Florida 3,204 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,592 (2015-2019) → 1,407 (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
68.8% (2015-2019) → 41.2% (2020-2024)
−28 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
58.0% (2015-2019) → 84.2% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
43.6% (2015-2019) → 21.3% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$29,886 (2015-2019) → $60,714 (2020-2024)
+103%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
22.6% (2015-2019) → 7.4% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Midway (CDP), Florida improved on 2 of 6 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 4 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Household income+103%$29,886 → $60,714
Broadband+26 points58.0% → 84.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 6 measures

Change of every measure of Midway (CDP), Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	58.0%2015-2019	84.2%2020-2024	+26 points	Improved	96%
High school diploma or higher	77.4%2015-2019	87.2%2020-2024	+9.8 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	3.9×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	50%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4542015-2019	0.4262020-2024	−0.028	Within the margin of error	73%
Median household income	$29,8862015-2019	$60,7142020-2024	+103%	Improved	99%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Midway (CDP), Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Midway (CDP), Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Midway (CDP), Florida itself moved +15.9 points in standing on average over the same 5 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,407 residents (±575)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

524 households (±122)

Midway (CDP), Florida
Florida share

Under $25k31%†162
$25k–50k15%†76
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

524 households (±122)

Midway (CDP), Florida
Florida share

Own72%376
Rent28%†148

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

665 workers (±329)

Midway (CDP), Florida
Florida share

Drive alone53%†350
Carpool35%†230
Public transit0.0%

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Seminole County, the county holding most of Midway's residents.

Seminole County has 14,897 employer establishments, 306 for every 10,000 residents (1.23× the US rate of 248; 1.09× Florida's), with 193,461 paid employees at an average annual pay of $58,649. The Census Bureau also counts 58,658 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 14,897; 58,658 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 306; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 193,461
Average annual pay: $58,649; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Seminole County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	1,340	27.5	1.32×More than typical	11,645	$62,064	2,833
Specialty trade contractors	1,158	23.8	1.53×More than typical	14,876	$61,478	3,029
Lessors of real estate	941	19.3	1.57×More than typical	2,998	$58,515	5,947
Restaurants and other eating places	891	18.3	1.00×About typical	18,206	$22,854	265
Services to buildings and dwellings	613	12.6	1.87×More than typical	4,835	$36,070	3,613
Management, scientific and technical consulting	605	12.4	1.85×More than typical	3,660	$74,940	2,244
Construction of buildings	462	9.5	1.25×More than typical	3,523	$89,504	1,656
Real estate agents and brokers	459	9.4	1.93×More than typical	660	$50,783	1,933
Offices of physicians	454	9.3	1.44×More than typical	4,090	$86,887	445
Offices of other health practitioners	447	9.2	1.51×More than typical	2,179	$41,190	1,349
Insurance agencies and brokerages	432	8.9	2.02×More than typical	4,504	$78,827	1,188
Limited-service restaurants	418	8.6	1.07×About typical	8,195	$18,686	88

Rank places for an industry Open Seminole County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 487,504 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $28.9K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Midway (CDP), Florida: $20.53 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $28.9K; −87% vs FY2025
Per resident: $20.53; US $1,995
Sole-source: 0.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 21%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Defense Logistics Agency$21.2K73%
Federal Aviation Administration$4,10914%
U.S. Coast Guard$2,5648.9%
Environmental Protection Agency$7712.7%
Department of the Navy$2120.7%
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office$78.130.3%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

72.5KFY2017
244.5KFY2018
141.8KFY2019
149.8KFY2020
55.1KFY2021
102.1KFY2022
327.8KFY2023
255.5K

Top industries (NAICS)

Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$23.7K82%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$4,10914%
Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$7712.7%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$1310.5%
Paint, coating, and adhesive manufacturing · 3255$80.700.3%
Data processing, hosting, and related services · 5182

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Midway (CDP), Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Midway (CDP), Florida's figures are part of those of Seminole County, FL ($92.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Midway is mostly in Seminole County.

See federal money in Seminole County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Midway (CDP), Florida is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Cory MillsR-FL-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 6.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Seminole County85100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL68

Other cities and towns in Seminole County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

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